USB drivers included in the Linux kernel are rife with security flaws that in some cases can be exploited to run untrusted code and take over users' computers. The vast majority of these ...

I'm starting on some linux USB device driver development, and have hit a few snags on the way. I found some excellent resources on both linux-usb.org and linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net, but I still can ...

The Linux USB subsystem has grown from supporting only two different types of devices in the 2.2.7 kernel (mice and keyboards), to over 20 different types of devices in the 2.4 kernel. Linux currently ...

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...

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The open-source community says it won't be long before Linux starts working with speedy USB 2 connections. Is it the mainstream breakthrough Linux has been waiting for? Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded systems design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...